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[lbcolefan]

[OtherEric]

Two digests in today, courtesy of @Surfing Alien. The Galaxy is squarebound and the Stork is stapled:

[Book Guy]

On 9/20/2023 at 12:11 PM, Yorick said:

I like a certain author...  I'm prohibited from writing his name.

Same here! He's my # 1 Collection focus over the years though I rarely buy anything anymore.

[OtherEric]

On 9/22/2023 at 10:44 PM, Book Guy said:

Same here! He's my # 1 Collection focus over the years though I rarely buy anything anymore.

PKD is one of my favorite writers, I just recently finished putting together a set of first editions of all his paperback originals.  I've only got one original hardcover, though.  My collection of his pulp and digest work is spotty, he was incredibly prolific and in high demand.   There's at least 3 digests with his work on page 1 of the thread, though.

[Yorick]

On 9/22/2023 at 8:40 PM, OtherEric said:

The Galaxy is squarebound and the Stork is stapled

I was thinking those are GREAT story titles... and then I scrolled down. 

"The Galaxy is Squarebound"

[catrick339]

Grabbed a cool one today. 

Seven interior pages of Bettie Page, and check out the Atlas bullet upper RH

[Darwination]

Nice, Catrick, what's the date on that one?  Even though it's Atlas I don't seem to have any.  Seven pages of Betty is a whole lot of Betty

She was totally a regular model in the TAM Humorama digests.

I was thinking Brief might have run in multiple formats like some of these Atlas did, but MyComicShop is showing all digest (I thought maybe it had run as a pocket magazine or shifted to full sized, too).

Of course, I have seen this particular issue fetch crazy prices (as any MM cover does, even if she is looking extra hot here):

 

-an aside and not a small magazine, but rather an oversized magazine, up at auction (not mine) on eBay right now, Norma Jean Dougherty

The one up right now is not as nice as this copy. Totally charming cover.

 

[lbcolefan]

[Darwination]

[catrick339]

On 9/23/2023 at 4:00 PM, Darwination said:

Nice, Catrick, what's the date on that one?  Even though it's Atlas I don't seem to have any.  Seven pages of Betty is a whole lot of Betty

She was totally a regular model in the TAM Humorama digests.

I was thinking Brief might have run in multiple formats like some of these Atlas did, but MyComicShop is showing all digest (I thought maybe it had run as a pocket magazine or shifted to full sized, too).

Of course, I have seen this particular issue fetch crazy prices (as any MM cover does, even if she is looking extra hot here):

 

-an aside and not a small magazine, but rather an oversized magazine, up at auction (not mine) on eBay right now, Norma Jean Dougherty

The one up right now is not as nice as this copy. Totally charming cover.

 

v2 #6, Nov 1954, 130 b&w pages

Contents page laid out identical to your sample, but different publisher name and street addy.

The tax guys must have found him again,  

Edited September 24, 2023 by catrick339

[Robot Man]

On 9/23/2023 at 6:32 PM, lbcolefan said:

Wow, what a Fantastic group of covers! Sure makes me sorry I didn’t pick through so many flea market boxes of stuff like this when I had the chance. Most of the ones I did. Never had covers like these…

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[lbcolefan]

[Pat Calhoun]

this one's a 1951 PB

[Darwination]

On 9/27/2023 at 3:05 PM, lbcolefan said:

Some good ones in here!

[Pat Calhoun]

One thing I've always appreciated on PBs is that most of them have a nice thick cover stock, whereas digests are predominately bound in a thinner more fragile paper. So I like digests that have the sturdier covers, and the first Atlas crime series 1942-1945 all have them. Here's the first with Cardwell Higgins' delightful pin-up style art, and the last, with art by another cheesecake specialist, Peter Driben.

Edited September 28, 2023 by Pat Calhoun